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Phillis Wheatley's Poetics of Liberation - Backgrounds and Contexts (Hardcover)
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Phillis Wheatley's Poetics of Liberation - Backgrounds and Contexts (Hardcover)
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Phillis Wheatley's Poetics of Liberation is a groundbreaking
scholarly study of one of America_s most important and most
controversial writers. Wheatley (1753-1784) was the first African
American to publish a book on any subject in the new country, and
America_s second woman to do so. There is probably no other
American writer who has produced such critical controversy as
Phillis Wheatley. In this new volume, John C. Shields-one of the
foremost scholars of Wheatley- demonstrates that much of the
negative response to her writings has been based on false
assumptions and myths about her and her work. Much of this
criticism began more than a century ago and has been passed on
without dissent by generations of readers. Here, Shields sets a
course for Wheatley scholars that will redefine the direction of
future writing about her. Shields begins this volume with an
incisive analysis of more than two hundred years of complicated and
often misinformed scholarship and commentary about Wheatley. In
following chapters, he explores Wheatley_s background and the
cultural context in which she wrote. Shields provides new and
subtle readings for a great many of her poems. He shows that
Wheatley_s writing was deeply imbedded in several literary
traditions, demonstrating that her work is the result of an African
inheritance, a complex relationship with a Congregationalist
religious heritage, and an intense involvement with classical
literature. Read closely, Wheatley's works show she deserves credit
for creating a liberationist aesthetic-the full implications of
which are still to be worked out. This important new study is
certain to become the standard in the field. Phillis Wheatley's
Poetics of Liberation is essential for all students and scholars of
American literature, African American literature, women_s
literature, and multicultural literature. John C. Shields is the
editor of The Collected Works of Phillis Wheatley and the author of
The American Aeneas: Classical Origins of the American Self, which
won a Choice Outstanding Academic Book award and an honorable
mention in the Harry Levin Prize competition, sponsored by the
American Comparative Literature Association. He is Distinguished
Professor of English and Director of the Center for Classicism in
American Culture at Illinois State University.
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